Nizar Trabelsi

Nizar Trabelsi (2 July 1970-) was a Tunisian soccer player and al-Qaeda member who plotted to attack a US embassy in Paris, France in 2001. A former athlete who played for several German teams in the early 1990s, Trabelsi was arrested on 13 September 2001 before he could carry out the suicide bombing against the US embassy, and he was extradited to the USA by Belgium in 2013.

Biography
Nizar Trabelsi was born on 2 July 1970, and he became a professional soccer player in Germany, playing as a midfielder. He played for Fortuna Dusseldorf, Wuppertaler SV, 1. FC Wulfrath, SV 09/35 Wermelskirchen, and NfR Neuss from 1989 to 1994, but he later quit soccer and became an Islamic extremist. He traveled to Afghanistan and met with Osama bin Laden on many occasions, and he was ordered to launch an attack on the United States embassy in Paris, France in September 2001. Trabelsi was the designated suicide bomber, and he stayed in Rotterdam, Netherlands with a local al-Qaeda cell, and cell member Kamel Daoudi manufactured the bombs that were to be used in the attack. However, the weapons were found stockpiled at an Egyptian restaurant in Brussels, Belgium, and Trabelsi was arrested on 13 September 2001. In 2003, he was sentenced to ten years in prison in Belgium, and on 3 October 2013 he was extradited to the United States, and he was held in the capital of Washington DC without bond.